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Bones
Gamer in the Grease
Original Air Date: Dec 3, 2009
Karen – Sr. Staff Writer
Karen@thetwocentscorp.com
Not too much is going on this week with our favorite couple, but some funny stuff does go on within the Squints group. Our tall intern, Fisher, is back and has tickets to the premiere showing of Avatar. He asks Sweets and Hodgins to go with him, and boy are they pumped!They figure they have to camp out in front of the theater so they can get the best seats. Kind of reminds me of this past weekend and the whole “Black Friday” fiasco.
Each of the guys takes a turn waiting in line, but if he is needed back at the Jeffersonian, then someone goes to replace him in line, so he can get back without anyone being the wiser. Well, while Sweets is sitting in line a girl gets all frisky and cozy with him. She even shows him her tattoos. Let me just point out, that in order to do this, she needed to lift up her shirt. This, of course, got Sweets attention. Especially after hearing Fisher tell of his sexual escapades nearing the 100 mark. But as she starts to make her move on him, he tells her that he has a girlfriend (don’t forget Daisy, everyone) and stops her. Just then, Fisher shows up, and the girl stars eyeing him. Once he tells her that he is a forensic anthropologist she gets all excited and starts her moves on him. Fisher, of course, goes for it!
Meanwhile, back at the Squint cave, Hodgins is bending some pipe to try and prove something, when Angela walks in and sees a tattoo on his arm….of her!
She gets a bit perturbed and then finds out that it was her father that gave it to him, so he wouldn’t forget. You know, the ZZ Top –guy!
Finally, while in line, Hodgins explains to Sweets that it is the quality of the sex, Sweets has with Daisy, and that all the times they have “done it” is more than Fisher’s. The theater opens it’s doors and the line starts moving, but nobody is telling Fisher and the girl, who are still in the tent on the sidewalk.
My favorite moments: The whole “Bow Chick A Wow Wow” scene with B&B. And when Hodgins, Sweets and Fisher are watching a preview of the movie on Angela’s big screen in her office and then Fisher asks if she gets porn on this thing… hehe.
Gross moment: when they pull the mailman’s body out of the grease and all the skin and guts come sliding off… ew!
The case was about a mailman that was killed because he videotaped an autistic teen playing a perfect video game, but then claimed it was him who did it, was awarded some type of recognition. The father of the teen killed him, because his son had done something great and the mailman took it away from him and wouldn’t even give him credit.
What did you think? Like having the storyline mostly about the squints for a change? Looking forward to next weeks episode, I am!
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I wasn’t too impressed with this episode, alas.
I was actually kind of upset at how far the thing with Sweets went with tattoo girl. Kissing is cheating in my book, and I bet it would be in Daisy’s book as well. I’m interested in *Avatar*, but whenever shows do this blatant product placement in the plot it makes me irritated and not want to watch the shows…might be just me, though.
I thought everyone felt kind of out of character this episode, actually. Brennan is written inconsistently in the show. She used to not be savvy to some pop references, but now it’s like she never has read or been exposed to anything but bones. It’s hard to reconcile her writing popular mystery novels and having had multiple long term relationships with her not knowing what “bow chikka bow wow” is. Recently, she just comes off as almost dumb in some ways, which annoys me.
My favorite part was probably Cam, who isn’t even close to my favorite character, patiently trying to deal with all of the crazies. The little moment with Angela and Hodgins was super cute. They need to come up for more reasons for T.J. Thyne to wear less and be flirty with Angela. 🙂
All the product placement in this episode was extremely obnoxious, and my aggravation with it made it difficult for me to focus on the actual show. Raise your hand if you figured out that it was the autistic kid playing as soon as they showed the winning video with no hands or faces? Okay, raise your hand if you figured out it was the autistic kid as soon as they introduced the autistic kid. (That’s my hand in the air) The writers must have been working very hard on their deal with James Cameron and forgot to give the mystery and actually mysterious quality. Speaking of Cameron, I did hear Hodgins say “King of the Lab” but it wasn’t with any emphasis at all.
Looking forward to the next episode….
I’m not especially old fashioned or prude, and not a stranger to one-night stands, but this episode disturbed me. Bit degrading to show a female coming on to a complete stranger in public and then wanting to have sex right on the sidewalk in a tent?? What the___? First, like that would actually happen, and second why in public? Isn’t that against the law? I didn’t get it, maybe because I’m female? I thought it was very tacky. At least they couldn’ve done in the back seat of a car or alley where REAL sluts do it.
“Where real sluts do it”… hehe
Ok, so we are all in agreement that the slutty ho makin her moves on our squints was a bit too much. I have a feeling that little Miss Daisy is going to find out in a couple eps and Sweets aint gonna be to sweet anymore! I also thought that the girl was doing it just to jump in line, but that wasn’t the case.
I also agree that Hodgins needs to be shirtless a few more times…who knew!
Trish: yes, I thought it was going to be the autistic kid as soon as they showed him, but it was the father, but still….
Why, why, why do they do the advertising of these things on shows? I don’t like it either! But they seem to get caught up in it. The money must be good.
I meant that it was the autistic kid who really had a perfect game. If they had made him the killer, I would have been very angry.
Yea, I would have been angry, too. But , I had to agree with the fathers reasoning as to why he did it. I would have been agry, too if someone did that to my child
Agree, agree, agree. Something happened at the beginning of this season when they sent Bones back under a pop culture rock. She had gotten so much better and then bam: back to the stone age!
Yep, Trish, I also knew the autistic kid had played the game. I kept hoping there was a less obvious twist, but there wasn’t. The mystery was kind of by the wayside, and for me if they do that I kind of want them to make it up in a heartwarming character story, but instead we got the tent SLO. I think the reason Hodgins said “king of the Lab” without any emphasis was because he was supposed to be distracted and realizing he had to run out the door. It was more evidence that his mind wasn’t on the science.
Agree with everyone else here. I’m also looking forward to the next episode. This show usually does a good job with holiday episodes.
can’t wait for Booth down to his skivvies and Angela wanting in on the exam…hehe